Editing Hawkins County, Tennessee (section)

==History==
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The land was given to William Armstrong as a land grant in the 1780s.<ref name="nrhpdocstonypoint">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=73001788}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Stony Point |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=May 11, 2018}} With {{NRHP url|id=73001788|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref> Armstrong built [[Stony Point (Surgoinsville, Tennessee)|Stony Point]].<ref name="nrhpdocstonypoint"/> Armstrong's landholding was established as a county in 1787.<ref name=tehc/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/TN_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Tennessee: Individual County Chronologies|website=Tennessee Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=[[The Newberry Library]]|date=2007|access-date=April 18, 2015|archive-date=February 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203135839/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/TN_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was named for [[Benjamin Hawkins]], a [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator]] from [[North Carolina]], the state which it was a part of at that time.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n151 152]}}</ref> In 1797, [[Louis Philippe]] (who would become King of the French in 1830) visited Armstrong's estate.<ref name="nrhpdocstonypoint"/>

During the [[American Civil War]], Hawkins County saw combat. The [[Battle of Rogersville]] took place on November 6, 1863.

Since the 1940s, a 1,900-2,200 acre area western Hawkins County was proposed and planned as [[state park]] known as Poor Valley State Park in order to promote economic development efforts in the upper [[East Tennessee]] region, the plan would stall in the 1970s.<ref name="jcpark">{{cite news |last1=Hodge |first1=Tom |title=Poor Valley State Park Proposed For ET Area |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/587415828/ |access-date=May 12, 2021 |work=Johnson City Press |date=March 31, 1957}}</ref><ref name="johnston">{{cite news |last1=Johnston |first1=Sheila |title=Poor Valley Park: The Wait Goes On |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/592754050/ |access-date=May 12, 2021 |work=[[Kingsport Times-News]] |date=October 27, 1976}}</ref>